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The Growtainer is a high density farm built inside an insulated, recycled shipping container. It is mobile, agile and its open framework design means that each unit can be continually improved as technology advances. Using our specially designed growrack system, LED lighting technology and specially engineered hydroponics the Growtainer offers a mobile platform to deliver fresh produce anywhere, anytime.

Local Production for Local Consumption

Customized Hydroponic High-Yield Systems

A Sustainable Economical Solution

The Portable Farm of the Future

A Growtainer™ container (patent pending) is a highly engineered modular and mobile vertical production environment: a specially designed and constructed 40’ insulated shipping container that has been modified to provide the optimum controlled vertical environment for growing a wide range of horticultural and agricultural products in all environments and climates. The results are a significantly higher yield in a shorter time than all conventional production methods. With a Growtainer™ container, it is now possible to grow almost anything, almost anywhere.

Growtainer™ containers are mobile and stackable. The 40’ Growtainer™ container prototypes have been substantially modified with the installation of a utility area and two independent climate and environmentally controlled production chambers, perfect for research or production. Each Growtainer™ is painted with a reflective Marine Epoxy inside and 20-30 mm of ceramic insulating paint, the same used by NASA, outside. Each unit is equipped with our proprietary Growtroller™ control system, so unique that it almost eliminates the need for a full time grower. A positive pressure environment creates a natural barrier against pests and disease.

Research at Texas A&M Agrilife

Researchers use Growtainer™ containers, capable of unlimited simultaneous experiments, to find better ways of plant production in closed environments, with plants that need less water and less light, all aspects that are very important to solving the food security problems around the world. This video stream is live from a research container on site at Texas A&M Agrilife Center.